Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life
Civilized life exacts its toll.
There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.
Real life seems to have no plots.
What can we say with certainty?
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions.
In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.